Labour delegates vote overwhelmingly for Starver and Freeze to do what they’ve refused to do – but will continue to ignore
Keir Starmer and his front bench have refused calls from voters and pensioner groups, and questions from interviewers, for the restoration of the Winter Fuel Allowance that Rachel ‘Freeze’ Reeves cut almost as soon as she became Chancellor – calling it one of the best times of her career. Despite finding out that the government has at least £10bn more than she had claimed – almost half the made-up and nonsensical ‘black hole’ she claims to have found in the public finances – Reeves and her boss are determined to proceed with the cut – which they know will kill at least four thousand people each winter.
But in an embarrassment to the party’s sociopathic front bench, Labour’s conference – on its final day after enduring the dreary droning of the top two – has overwhelmingly passed a union motion demanding the restoration of the allowance, with the vote so clearly in favour that even the right-wingers chairing the session didn’t bother taking it to a formal ‘card’ count and declared it passed by show of hands.
The motion was put forward by Unite, but is non-binding. Labour’s leadership will ignore it – the Corbyn days when members’ will was considered decisive are long gone – but pose a serious embarrassment to what passes for the party’s leadership. Unfortunately, Unite – whose general secretary Sharon Graham has sidled ever closer to Starmer since taking over the union – has shown no sign of ending its huge financial support to a party that is busy betraying the working class.
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Re your last line, has not Unite made no contribution to the Labour Party above its affiliation fee based on membership of its political fund? Happy to be corrected.
Remarkably, it’s clear that Sir Keith Sausage Gobbler could p*ss in the tea of some, in front of their faces, and they’ll STILL not see him for the vilest Tory he is.
FACT: sir keith starmer was always, is and always will be, bad, Bad, BAD news.
Sir Sewage Sausage, free suits glasses and dresses Scrounger, OTHER people’s Kids Killer, but freebie £15 million mansion user so his tool could study for GCSEs, Keith claims. BUT, £15 million Covent Garden apartment scrounging dates given by Sir Keith, DON’t sync with pre GCSE dates.
Yet MORE Sir Max Headroom Sausage Gobbler LIES.
Here is Sharon Graham’s very forthright conference speech in support of Unite’s motion.
https://youtu.be/7-CQX_DNzKc
Thought conference was sovereign while sitting??
Whatever THAT meant.
Yes, LP policy (not a Labour government, which claims a wider legitimacy).
Wider legitimacy? This horrendous Government got only 1-in-5 of all the votes available to it. ‘Legitimacy’ isn’t the right word for this Gov., Paul.